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My favorite part of traveling is when the plane is taking off. As soon as the wheels lift off the ground, and up, up we go, I begin to relax. At that point, all I can do is sit and enjoy the journey. There is nothing else to pack, nothing else to remember. Whatever I’ve Continue reading

Jaana is obsessed with snow. She absolutely cannot wait for the possibility of it. She asked me recently how snow is made…I told her that when it starts to get rainy and it’s really, really cold, then the rain turns to snow. (A meteorologist, I am not.) So any time it’s cold and rainy now, Continue reading

“Just because I’m losing doesn’t mean I’m lost.” – Lost, Coldplay “We Are Marshall” was on TV again. Despite the fact that Greg has seen it more than 20 times, he watched it again. Despite the fact that I’ve watched it two or three times with him, I was supportive and watched it again with Continue reading

In preparation for Thanksgiving, I spent all day Wednesday doing a “level 3” cleaning (as my brother-in-law would say)…scrubbing baseboards, washing windows, dusting ceiling fans. I was not inconvenienced by any of this — it was all part of the holiday plan. In the days that followed, however, I have grown very inconvenienced by the Continue reading

It used to take me exactly three minutes to walk that big hill in my neighborhood. That big hill, my nemesis, would take me three minutes exactly — no more, no less. No matter how fast I walked, how heavy I breathed, how hard I pumped my arms, I simply couldn’t beat the time. And Continue reading